"Though we need to weep your loss,You dwell in that safe place in our heartsWhere no storm or night or pain can reach you.

Your love was like the dawnBrightening over our lives, Awakening beneath the darkA further adventure of color.

The sound of your voiceFound for usA new musicThat brightened everything.

Whatever you enfolded in your gazeQuickened in the joy of its being;You placed smiles like flowersOn the alter of the heart.Your mind always sparkledWith wonder at things.

Though your days here were brief, Your spirt was alive, awake, complete.

We look toward each other no longerFrom the old distance of our names;Now you dwell inside the rhythm of breath, As close to us as we are to ourselves.

Though we cannot see you with outward eyes,We know our soul's gaze is upon your face,Smiling back at us from within everythingTo which we bring our best refinement.

Let us not look for you only in memory,Where we sould grow lonely without you.You would want us to find you in presence,Beside us when beauty brightens,When kindness glowsAnd music echoes eternal tones.

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May you continue to inspire us:

To enter each day with a generous heart.To serve the call of courage and loveUntil we see your beautiful face againIn that land where there is no more separation,Where all tears will be wiped from our mind,And where we will never lose you again."